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Year 11 Saturday Schools 2025-2026
Our Year 11 Saturday School programme sees students come into school between 9.00-11.00am on Saturdays to undertake focused revision work and put in the necessary extra miles
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Key Dates for Autumn Half-Term 1
The following video gives you a flavour of what events are coming up over the first half-term of the 2025-2026 academic year. Click here for the video. Matt Allman, Headteacher
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Break & Wet Break Reminders
We were disappointed to see Autumn weather this morning – particularly as we can see so many Summer smiles with our staff and students catching up after the holiday. When
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Welcome to the Autumn Term
The rain did not dampen down our excitement to welcome our students back and their smiles were only returned by our staff who were pleased to see them. Our opening day sees an
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Friary School Site Works over Summer Break
With the support of our academy Trust, the Primitas Learning Partnership, we have managed to replace our end-of-life (and beyond) boiler – working with teams from Barkers
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National Acclaim for Friary Students on OCR Sports Studies
We were delighted to be contacted by the OCR Exam Board in reference to our OCR Cambridge National in Sports Studies course which is taken by our Year 10-11 students. The course
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School Year of the Environment
In a world of “Drill, Baby, Drill”, criticism of the ambition of UK Net Zero, and climate denial, we prefer to educate our students with the emphases articulated by Bob Brown
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Senior 7 for 2025-2026
Our Senior 7 are the pinnacle of our school leadership model and represent the most senior student leaders in our Sixth Form and across the wider school. Indeed, many of the team
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School Opening for Autumn 2025
All students will be expected in school by 8.40am on Wednesday 3 September for a full school day. The day will begin with an extended tutor time where timetables, handbooks, etc
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Excellent Exam Results at The Friary School
The Friary School’s Year 11 results brought lots of celebration as the latest cohort matched preceding years’ top-ranking outcomes with another excellent set of results. There
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